Multimedia Principles (Second Edition) Media Coding and Content Analysis

Author: Bai Jinbang
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Publish Date: 2003-01-01
Features: This book introduces the basic characteristics of digital audio, images, video, graphics, and animation, and argues for effective methods in content analysis and compression. The content includes the general features of multimedia and data streams and their impact on multimedia system design; basic audio concepts and representation techniques; characteristics of graphics and images; various video signals, broadcasting standards, digitalization, and computer-based animation issues; basic compression methods and multimedia compression standards; optical storage technologies and devices; content processing techniques, etc. This book can be used as a textbook for undergraduate students in computer science and communication engineering programs in universities, as well as a reference for engineering professionals.